Mark 7
7
Defiled on the Inside or Outside
1Then Pharisees and some of the scribes who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. 2And they saw some of his disciples eating bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed. 3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4When they come from the marketplace, they don’t eat unless they bathe, and there are many other things which they have received and hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, and bronze pots.) 5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”
6He answered them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about y’all hypocrites. As it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
7 They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the human commandments.’ #
Isaiah 29:13
8 “Having neglected the commandment of God, y’all are holding tightly to human tradition.” 9He also said to them, “Y’all have an excellent way of rejecting the commandment of God so that y’all can keep y’all’s tradition. 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’#Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 and, ‘Anyone who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’#Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9 11But y’all say, if a human tells their father or his mother, ‘Whatever assistance you might have received from me is Corban,’” (that is, given to God), 12“then y’all no longer allow them to do anything for their father or mother. 13This invalidates the word of God by y’all’s tradition which y’all have handed down. And y’all do many things like this.”
14Again he called the crowd and said to them, “All y’all listen to me and understand. 15Nothing outside a human can defile them by going inside them. Instead, it is the things that proceed out of a human that defile a human. 16#7:16 Some manuscripts include verse 16 “If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear!”
17When he had entered the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18He said to them, “Are y’all also foolish? Don’t y’all understand that whatever goes into a human from outside can’t defile them, 19because it doesn’t go into their heart, but into their stomach, then out of the body?” (Thus, all foods are clean.) 20He said, “What proceeds out of a human, that defiles the human. 21For it is from within, out of the human heart, that evil thoughts proceed—sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22adultery, greed, evil, deceit, sensuality, envious eyes, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23All these evils come from within and defile a human.”
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith and Courage
24Jesus arose and went away into the region of Tyre. He entered a house and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. 25But immediately, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, and came and fell down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician background. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
28But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
29He said to her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
30She went away to her house, and found the child lying on the bed, with the demon having gone out.
Healing a Deaf and Mute Man
31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of Decapolis. 32They brought to him a man who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately and put his fingers into his ears. Then he spat and touched the man’s tongue. 34Looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, he said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” 35Then his ears were opened, and the his tongue was loosened, and he spoke clearly. 36Jesus commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, the more widely they proclaimed it. 37They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
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